Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-03-18
TERRITORIAL ITEMS,
North Yakima talks of a handsom,
brick theatre.

| NOrtn aKlma talks OF q nanusOm
brick theatre.
| Sneak thieves are reported in man,
towns OF the Territory.
The Northern Pacific has stored a
North Yakima 200 tons of ice iron
Cocolalla.
First-class passenger rates to al
Eastern points from Walla Walla vii
be raised $40 on April LIST.
Columbia citizens are holding meet
ings to secure a new line of railroad t,
some seaport town or to Puget Sound
The location OF Cowlitz county sea
is to be settled on the first Monday il
April by vote of the people. 1t il
now located at Kalama.
Walla Walla has 675,OOO bricks ir
her yards, and her enterprising citi'
zens will soon have them piled up into
handsome buildings on the burned
district.
r. o. Dunbar, of Goldendale, has
sold his ranch in Klickitat county to
B. F. Purdy, taking in payment there
for 50 800 cash and 225 acres of land
in Polk county, Oregon.
The socialistic colony at Topolobam-
po, Mexico, is not proving the success
its projectors expected. We will soon
have an experiment of this kind near
home. 1t is said that the colony to be
established at Port Angeles, on the
Straits of Fuca, will be incorporated
and begins operations in May.
Chief Justice Jones states that he
he would not be in any great hurry in
appointment of his Clerk, but would
take plenty of time to investigate the
merits of the various candidates before
making his choice. He said he thought
it would be month or six weeks be-
fore he made change, if at all.
An effort is being made to establish
big industrial school for the Indian
children at the Puyallup reservation.
If the scheme is successful, Indians
will be brought there from the various
other reservations in the Territory,
and taught various trades, besides re-
ceiving o rudimentary education in
the English language.
The repairs to the Olympian, which
is to 60 on the Alaska route between
Port Townsend and Sitka, are about
completed. Fifty staterooms with 150
berths have been added. The Olyn,-
plan will be taken to San Francisco
next week, to be placed on the dry
docks there SO that necessary repairs
can be made to her bottom.
In answer to Tacoma hop dealer,
s. G.. Fulton, General Freight Agent
of the Northern Pacific, said that the
Interstate Commerce law will raise
freights on hops to the East about 200
per cent. A similar increase in freight
on barley will stop the shipment OF
Walla Walla barley to Chicago. The
increase may be expected. Moral
The Interstate Commerce law is bad
for Walla Walla farmers.
Rev. J. o. Raynor who was ap-
pointed chaplain in the army from
Washington Territory, May %, 1864,
and who served at Fort Steilacoom in
1864, 1865 and 1866, but who has been
at the Preside for several years past,
was retired last week on account Of old
age. Mr.. Raynor was the Republican
candidate for Delegate to Congress in
this Territory in 1863, but was beaten
by George E. Cole, Democrat.
The following postmasters have been
appointed in Washington Territory
]. w. Reese, Kalama; Mrs. Margaret
Mcdonald, Arcadia, Mason county ;
Dora Pearson, Kamaia, Whitman
county; J. NJ. Irene Hensel, Lyle,
Klickitat county; Thomas G. Durbin,
Peoria, Garfield county; J. s. McMil-
lin, Roche Harbor, San Juan county
Augustus Herring, Stella, Cowlitz
county; Charles A. Jacobs, Touchet,
Walla Walla county.
H. s. Singer, of Laconner, came
near being the victim of very serious
accident, few days ago. He was out
near the barn when the wind was
blowing so hard and he heard q large
spruce tree crack. Knowing that il
would fall on the barn if it came down,
he started to let the horses out. just
as he came out with the horses the
tree struck the barn, demolishing the
north end. If he had been q few sec.
ends later, he would probably have
been killed together with four horses.
The question having been raised, il
may be stated that the new Supreme
Court Judges-Jones and Allyn-wil
be entitled to sit in judgment upon
cases from their districts previous de
cided in the lower courts by their pre-
decessors, Judges Greene and Hoyt
With them on the bench and under
these circumstances the Supreme
Court will consist of four justices. The
congressional law governing the mat
ter simply fOrbids the service of 6
Judge in the Supreme Court ON any
case tried by him in the District Court
H. S. Husen, Engineer in charge o
the construction of the Cascade branch